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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: OK, so what else is out there? Over the ensuing decades, he found his way to the answer: a lot. From his current vantage point as a successful stand-up comic, Kasher looks back on his years careening from subculture to subculture, and he immerses readers in the hilariously strange nuances of each of the scenes he's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter"--
Rodriguez, now a stand-up comedian, has been kidnapped (twice, by family), lived through a difficult marriage, and suffered homelessness with her children in Los Angeles. But through it all she never lost her sense of humor. Here Rodriguez turns tragedy and pain into comedy, charting her many ups...
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